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Google's system programming language Go is becoming more mature and easier to use. Now is a good time to try it out with Visual Studio Code making it even easier. 
In the UK Alan Sugar's Amstrad was the first company to look at computing with an eye to producing something cheap and cheerful and in doing so revolutionised the computer marketplace.
Although Apple is often seen as being a law unto itself, it also has to comply with legal restrictions imposed in the different countries in which it operates. The newly published Apple Transparency Report reveals app takedowns for the second half of 2018 as well as requests from law enforcement agencies regarding devices and accounts. 
The situation with the Boeing Max 737 is rapidly becoming a textbook case on how not to implement embedded systems and how not to deal with problems. It now seems that the software fix that will return the plane to the skies overloads its flight computer. 
There appears to be a preview of the ad-free browsing promised by Mozilla. In turns out to be nothing more than a survey to gauge interest and a re-direct to a free trial of a product from it Scroll, which has partnered with Mozilla. 
Google has updated its Data Studio analytics tool with a new home page designed to make it easier for users to find information and reports.
Fushia's existence was akin to a conspiracy theory until Google finally confirmed it at I/O 2019 in May. What does it mean for the rest of Google's operating systems? 
One of the final stages of the move from Java EE to Jakarta EE has taken place as the Eclipse Foundation has renamed all the specifications of the Java EE standard to instead be part of Jakarta EE. The renaming is aimed at consolidating and clarifying the role of the various documents. 
You have probably heard that it is often possible to get data out of a system by monitoring the way status LEDs blink on and off, but now it seems the technique sometimes makes it possible to get data in as well.
This may not be the cat video you were expecting, but after numerous articles on computer vision recognizing cats, here's one in which machine learning is put to work to detect when your cat is bringing home a trophy you really don't want indoors. 
Developers are being given the opportunity to decide how to improve .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is the general-purpose cluster computing framework that has native support for distributed SQL and enables streaming, graph processing, and machine learning. A survey is now open to help shape the future of the .NET for Spark product. 
Amazon has released a new digital course for developers and designers who want to create apps, referred to as skills, for Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa. Is it a good idea to join the Alexa Skill bandwagon?
We may still be waiting for the final release of C# 8.0, but the developers are already discussing what will form the basis of C# 8.X. The list reveals some details of what will miss the cut-off for C# 8.0. 
Fast.ai has just published a follow-on to its free online course Practical Deep Learning for Coders. At advanced level, Deep Learning from the Foundations is also free. How do these two courses stack up.